October 13, 201114 yr Hello, everyone.When I used to have a laptop set up with 98SE and XP on the same HD, I used NTFS4DOS to access the NTFS partition under 98SE. Now, I have my desktop running 98SE on the C drive and XP running on the D drive (which is connected to a PCI RAID card). I've tried about five different programs to access the D drive from 98SE with no success. While these programs correctly identify the D drive as 500GB, they're unable to access it. None of the programs have given me any helpful "reason" why, except for NTFS4DOS which reports: "Hard Drive partitions not found by XP_SHELL!"So, what (if anything) can I do?Any help appreciated. Thank you.
October 13, 201114 yr Author Did you try Paragon NTFS for Win98?Yes. I tried five or so different programs of that kind, Paragon's being among them. No success.
October 14, 201114 yr Is it set up as a single 500 MB partition?Does XP chkdsk consider that partition OK?Do files bigger than 4 GiB - 1byte actually exist inside that partition?
October 14, 201114 yr Author Is it set up as a single 500 GB partition?Yes. And, as I said before, the NTFS programs for Win98 that I've tried can correctly detect the HD and its size - they just can't access its file system.Does XP chkdsk consider that partition OK?Yes.Do files bigger than 4 GiB - 1byte actually exist inside that partition?The largest sized single file stored on the partition is 2GB. Nearly 30GB of the total space is currently used by files.
October 14, 201114 yr Which PCI RAID card?Did you install a Win 98 driver for it? Is it detected by the Device Manager?
October 14, 201114 yr Author Which PCI RAID card?It's a HighPoint RocketRAID 1720.Did you install a Win 98 driver for it?Yes.Is it detected by the Device Manager?Yes. Other programs such as NOD32 anti-virus also acknowledge the HD, but of course can't access it since it's NTFS-formatted.
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